RBC

Cloud Governance Specialist

RBC

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Toronto • 🇨🇦 Canada

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetes

About the role

  • Author and maintain cloud platform controls, ensuring technical precision, platform specificity, and clarity on mandatory vs. discretionary requirements
  • Translate enterprise and regulatory expectations into risk-aligned, platform-implementable technical controls, collaborating with Cloud Security, Risk & Compliance, and Architecture teams
  • Manage the end-to-end controls lifecycle (draft, review, approve, publish, retire), including versioning, change control, and periodic relevance reviews
  • Define guardrail intent for platform standards, ensuring technical enforceability via tools like Azure Policy, AWS SCPs, and GCP Org Policies, and validating policy logic
  • Support exception workflows by assessing deviations, proposing compensating controls, and providing technical input for risk acceptance decisions
  • Act as a trusted advisor to product and engineering teams, explaining control rationale, application, and compliance expectations
  • Drive continuous improvement by refining controls based on monitoring feedback, eliminating ambiguity, and recommending new controls as platforms evolve

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in cloud governance, architecture, or engineering roles
  • Deep hands-on expertise in at least two of Azure, AWS, or GCP, including core services and architecture
  • Strong understanding of cloud fundamentals: service models (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS), shared responsibility, landing zones, and multi-account design
  • Expertise in cloud security domains: Identity & access, network security, logging/telemetry, encryption, and container platforms (e.g., Kubernetes)
  • Ability to author clear, enforceable technical controls and align them with regulatory, risk, and compliance frameworks
  • Exceptional communication to translate complex technical concepts for leadership, engineering, risk and compliance teams
  • Critical thinking and problem-solving skills to analyze complex, ambiguous technical challenges and decompose them into actionable steps
  • Exposure to regulatory frameworks (OSFI, NIST, ISO, CSA CCM, etc.)
Benefits
  • A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits
  • Competitive compensation
  • Commissions and stock where applicable
  • Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
  • Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
  • Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
  • A world-class training program in financial services
  • Flexible work/life balance options

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
cloud governancecloud architecturecloud engineeringAzureAWSGCPcloud securityKubernetestechnical controlsrisk compliance frameworks
Soft skills
communicationcritical thinkingproblem-solvingcollaborationcontinuous improvementtechnical precisionclaritytrust advisortranslating technical conceptseliminating ambiguity